[nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

Sun Jan 10 17:32:19 UTC 2010

That's what happens to me too. I'm using ie. What browser do you use? This
seems very strange.

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From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
Behalf Of Serena
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 10:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

When I try going to m.facebook.com, Jaws says something about not being able
to download a file.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerri Kosten" <kerrik2006 at gmail.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:10 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!

> Hey:
>
> Hmm, that's odd. I go to it all the time and it comes up as a
> site....I mean it's not the same as the regular one....it's a mobile
> version of the site....but it works and I can do things on it...and
> it's a lot cleaner than the regular site i find.
>
> What happens when you try it?
> Does any type of page come up?
>
> Kerri
>
> On 1/9/10, Serena <serenacucco at verizon.net> wrote:
>> m.facebook.com doesn't really exist anymore for people who only use
>> computers, not cell phones.  I already tried that.  Thanks anyway.
>>
>> Serena
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Cindy Bennett" <clb5590 at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 4:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] frustrated with facebook!
>>
>>
>>> Maybe instead of going to the regular site and clicking on mobile, go
>>> to m.facebook.com I think there might be a couple of links about
>>> activating your phone and such, but other than that, it is clean.
>>> Clicking on mobile might outline the features of facebook mobile
>>> rather than take you to the mobile site, but i have never clicked on
>>> it, so taht is just a thought.
>>>
>>> I understand though, facebook is quite annoying, but with as many
>>> users as it has, it can be.
>>>
>>> A lot of the applications are accessible though, and sometimes
>>> facebook is finicky not because of your screen reader, because i know
>>> several sighted friends who have problems. I feel like it is almost
>>> unavoidable with how many users there are and with how much is going
>>> on on the site.
>>>
>>> The mobile site is definitely useful for wall posts and sending
>>> messages and such, but isn't for other things such as the fact that it
>>> does not verbalize captions people might right on their pictures, and
>>> it doesn't give all of the information about groups and events, so
>>> depending on what i want to do, i switch between the regular and
>>> mobile site.
>>>
>>> One problem i just started encountering with JAWS 11 though is that
>>> when i enter an edit box, i am unable to get out of it. It has gotten
>>> to the point where i have to close the window and open another.
>>>
>>> Firefox helps ith some facebook problems but also presents others. For
>>> example, i cannot edit the heading about myself, the "write something
>>> about yourself" link unless i use firefox, but as of a couple of
>>> months ago, firefox wouldn't allow me to go offline. So i haven't
>>> found a browser that works optimally with JAWS and facebook. I will
>>> definitely be excited when voiceover improves.
>>>
>>> Cindy
>>>
>>> On 1/9/10, Serena <serenacucco at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi nabsters,
>>>>
>>>> It seems that facebook has become more inaccessible to t the blind or,
>>>> at
>>>> least, more cumbersome to use.  It seems that all the features on the
>>>> facebook mobile site that made it really great, such as few if any
>>>> graphics
>>>> or advertizements and not that many links on each page, and made them
>>>> only
>>>> useable by those who have facebook on their cell phones.  When I go to
>>>> the
>>>> link on the regular site that says "mobile," it merely takes me to the
>>>> regular site plus a section that talks about all the wonderful things
>>>> one
>>>> can do with facebook on their cell phones.  There are simply too many
>>>> links
>>>> and features on every page!  Ok, it's great to know about fancy
>>>> functions
>>>> like importing contacts and facebook chat, but do we really have to see
>>>> those sections on every page when all I'm really on there to do is
>>>> write
>>>> one
>>>> message to someone?  For those of us who might be in the dark ages lol
>>>> and
>>>> don't have a internet on our cell phones, are there any settings we
>>>> could
>>>> change to make reading the site any easier?
>>>>
>>>> Very frustrated,
>>>> Serena
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